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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456446803321

Titolo

Chinese femininities, chinese masculinities [[electronic resource] ] : a reader / / edited by Susan Brownell and Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom ; foreword by Thomas Laqueur

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002

ISBN

0-520-93530-6

1-59734-534-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (476 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BrownellSusan

WasserstromJeffrey N

Disciplina

305.3/0951

Soggetti

Sex role - China

Femininity - China

Masculinity - China

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography and index.

Nota di contenuto

ILLUSTRATIONS; FOREWORD; Introduction: Theorizing Femininities and Masculinities; PART ONE: Gender and the Law; PART TWO: Ideals of Marriage and Family; PART THREE: Gender in Literary Traditions; PART FOUR: Dangerous Women and Dangerous Men; PART FIVE: The Gender of Rebels; PART SIX: Blood, Qi, and the Gendered Body; PART SEVEN: Shifting Contexts of Gender and Sexuality; PART EIGHT: Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity; Afterword: Putting Gender at the Center; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

The past two centuries have witnessed tremendous upheavals in every aspect of Chinese culture and society. At the level of everyday life, some of the most remarkable transformations have occurred in the realm of gender. Chinese Femininities/Chinese Masculinities is a mix of illuminating historical and ethnographic studies of gender from the 1700's to the present.